Example sentences of "making [pron] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They also rejected Christie 's claim of a continuing rise in market share vis à vis Sotheby 's , resulting in a 49% share this season ( the highest since the mid-1950s ) and a 54% market share in Europe , making them the largest European auction house by sales . |
| 2 | Within this region up to 350,000 sq km would be owned outright by its Inuit inhabitants , thereby making them the largest private landlords in the world . |
| 3 | He first became a player-manager at 28 and in his time the 41-year-old Buckley has won three promotions , the Bob Lord trophy with Kettering — and been sacked by Walsall after making them the highest scoring team in the four Divisions . |
| 4 | In a surprising development regional autonomy groups in the north , campaigning against the centralized state and against immigration , particularly from southern Italy , and advocating federalism , won 5.6 per cent of the vote overall , making them the fourth largest political force nationally . |
| 5 | Arsenal 's mastery of the First Division was already making them the best-loved , best-hated club . |
| 6 | But North West teenagers receive an extra 20p making them the third highest paid in the country . |
| 7 | An angle of up to 10° can be placed on all couplings of this type , without leakage , making them the favourite choice . |
| 8 | It is interesting to ask whether the qualities Spenser conferred on the Irish , making them the hostile outsiders who needed to be suppressed but who his texts acknowledge to be also a lurking part of the civilised English , are still part of current English imaginative experience . |
| 9 | Lastly , I would like to thank my parents for making me the Judaeo-Christian hybrid that I am ; and my husband Timothy Boon for his support and ( not always welcome ) criticism . |
| 10 | I 've never loved him , but now I 've started to hate him — for making me the mercenary bitch I am . |
| 11 | The Stewarts reigned for 333 years , through 7 Scottish kings , a queen ( Mary Queen of Scots ) , and 7 monarchs of Great Britain , making theirs the longest monarchical dynasty ever to rule in these islands . |
| 12 | It is in this rarefied atmosphere that IBM may find the key to once again making itself the preferred partner of big business — a role that it has not recently played to sufficiently enthusiastic reviews . |
| 13 | For similar reasons BA , a Heathrow-based airline , was also keen to establish itself at Gatwick , thereby making itself the dominant airline at Britain 's two largest airports . |
| 14 | They 're just sort of relics of a time when people experimented with shapes and tried all kinds of different things ; these days instrument makers seem to have settled on making everything the same . |
| 15 | His reward came in July 1655 when Carvajal and his two sons were endenizened , thus making him the first English Jew , at least since the expulsion in 1290 . |
| 16 | It was announced at the same time that the UK Prime Minister , John Major , would travel to Beijing to sign the agreement , making him the first Western head of government to visit China since the crushing of the pro-democracy movement in June 1989 . |
| 17 | Venables raised £2.5m for a 23pc stake , making him the first man to play for , manage , and part-own a major English soccer club . |
| 18 | For that Macaulay reportedly earned £62,000 but his fee has soared to more than £2 million , making him the highest paid child star of all time . |
| 19 | His position within the duchy had brought him the support of men who would otherwise have been outside his sphere of influence , as well as making him the better lord for his own servants . |
| 20 | His position within the duchy had brought him the support of men who would otherwise have been outside his sphere of influence , as well as making him the better lord for his own servants . |
| 21 | In 1166 Peter 's great-grandfather , Thurstin de Montfort II , had held ten fees from the earl of Warwick , making him the second greatest of his tenants . |
| 22 | In February it was unanimously agreed that Sir Denys should continue as boss until he reached the retirement age of 62 , making him the longest-serving chairman since Sir Paul Chambers , who ran — and dominated — the company from 1960 to 1968 . |
| 23 | Formby 's films , with their straightforward plots and repressed naughtiness , were first-class family entertainment , making him the top box-office attraction of the late 1930s . |
| 24 | The wing 's 16 tries in Catania — making him the top try-scorer — mean Namibia get their first chance to meet the ‘ Big Four ’ at Murrayfield . |
| 25 | Pond snail in monteray pine David Morgan ( or Ned ) is one of the rate sorts of person who always appears to be happy and cheerful , making him the natural leader of the Devon branch of the British Woodcarvers Association . |
| 26 | Sister Murphy had been the last nurse to be with Sister Edith Cavell , and King George V had honoured her by making her the first to receive a medal for bravery at one of his levees . |
| 27 | In 1989 Vietnam had exported 1,400,000 tonnes of rice , making it the third-largest rice exporter in the world . |
| 28 | It measured 7.4 on the Richter scale , making it the third-largest to be experienced by the country in the 20th century . |
| 29 | The highest point on Elgon is over 14,000ft ( 4,300m ) , making it the second highest mountain in Kenya . |
| 30 | If one allows for a surrounding portico , 10 ft wide , the overall dimensions would have been 71 by 69½ ft , giving an area of 4934.5 sq.ft , making it the second largest temple in Britain . |